WORDS by Eneida P. Alcalde & ART by Lisa Dailey

Lisa Dailey is a Montana native and third-generation photographer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is also an avid traveler and writer. Along with her husband and two teenage sons, Lisa spent seven months traveling around the world, exploring thirteen countries and more than eighty locations. The world serves as the backdrop for her memoir, Square Up (Sidekick Press 2021), detailing her adventures and misadventures as well as her own personal journey through grief. https://lisa-dailey.com.

Eneida P. Alcalde’s Chilean-Puerto Rican background fuels her writing, which seeks to ask questions, explore mysteries, and elevate the underrepresented. Her stories and poems have appeared in literary outlets such as The Acentos Review, Magma Poetry, and Birdcoat Quarterly.

art, literaturePhoebe BoscheAugust 24, 2021The Raven Chroniclesraven chronicles, photorgraphy, Lisa Dailey, Eneida AlcaldeComment

Poem by Gary Copeland Lilley & ART BY Sarah E N Kohrs

Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman’s Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He is originally from North Carolina, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry 2014, Willow Springs, The Swamp, Waxwing, the Taos International Journal of Poetry, and the African American Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.
Sarah E N Kohrs creates art with a unique perspective on how surroundings kindle hope in even a disparaged heart. Find her photography most recently in CALYX, Glassworks, Gulf Stream, iō, Manhattanville Review, and Raven Chronicles. Surrounded by Shenandoah Valley mountains, Sarah is also a poet, a potter, a homeschooling mother, director for Corhaven Graveyard (a preserved burial ground for African Americans enslaved on an antebellum plantation), and more. Find her online at http://senkohrs.com.

Poems & Art by Keats Conley & Phoebe Bosché

Keats Conley has a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Oregon. She has conducted marine research around the world, and has been published in scientific journals such as Nature Microbiologyand PLOS One. She is currently a fish biologist in Idaho, where her work centers on threatened and endangered aquatic species.

Phoebe Bosché is a cultural activist, and has been managing editor of The Raven Chronicles literary organization/Raven Chronicles Press since 1991. Since 1984, she has organized literary events and readings in the Pacific Northwest. In 1985, she co-founded, along with poet Roberto Valenza, “Alternative To Loud Boats,” a literary and musical festival which ran for ten years in various venues in Seattle.

Poem & Art by Mercedes Lawry & Willie J. Pugh

Willie Pugh is a long time Seattle photographer and an Alabama native, who attended an all black high school in Selma, Alabama, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. At age fifteen he took part in the Selma to Montgomery Marches. It was during this period that he first became interested in photography as a way of recording and remembering the world in which he lived. To him photography is more than seeing. It is paying attention, remembering, and sharing. His compositions capture moments from everyday life, found objects, landscapes, and people being themselves. His works have appeared in such diverse places as Ebony Magazine, Beacon Hill Times and Raven Chronicles Magazine.

Mercedes Lawry has previously published poems in such journals as Poetry, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, and Prairie Schooner. She’s had three chapbooks published—There are Crows in My Blood, Happy Darkness, and In the Early Garden With Reason, which was selected by Molly Peacock for the 2018 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Mercedes received the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Prize from Twelve Winters Press and her manuscript, Small Measures, is forthcoming. She’s received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust and Richard Hugo House, been a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and was a Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook.

art, poetryPhoebe BoscheJune 13, 2021The Raven Chroniclespoetry, raven chronicles, homelessness, Willie Pugh, Mercedes LawryComment

Poem & Art by Sharon M. Carter

Sharon M. Carter is a poet and visual artist. Originally from Lancashire, UK, she earned a medical degree from Cambridge University, working in both British and American non-profit healthcare systems. Her work has been published in many literary magazines, anthologies and online, including Terra Nova, Pontoon, Exhibition, Ars Medica and the American Lung Association. She was fortunate that Hedgebrook and the Jack Straw Writers program supported her early in her writing career.

Previously one of four poets running the Northwind Reading Series in Port Townsend, she will assume a technical role in future. A chapbook entitled Quiver is forthcoming.

art, poetryPhoebe BoscheMay 25, 2021poetry, raven chronicles, Sharon Carter, womenComment

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